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See what is coming

To try to repeat an experience is mechanical sadhana, not spiritual.  You have to keep the experience in your pocket, as it were, and then see what is coming today.  You should not call back yesterday’s experience.  That experience has become finite, because it is recognized.  Keeping that recognition in your pocket, see what is coming in today’s practice.  If you work like that, your practice is spiritual sadhana.  But if you want to repeat today the experience of what was new yesterday, it is repetition; it is not sadhana – it cannot be spiritual. – B.K.S. Iyengar

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Copy

“What you copy and how you copy it shape your reputation as a dancer.” – C. V. Hill.

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The Essay That Describes Itself

This is the first sentence.  This is the second sentence.  This is the third sentence.  This is the fourth sentence.  This is the fifth sentence.  This is the sixth sentence.  This is the seventh sentence.  This is the eighth sentence.
This is the ninth sentence.  This is the tenth sentence.  This is the eleventh sentence.  This is the twelfth sentence.  This is the thirteenth sentence.  This is the fourteenth sentence.  This is the fifteenth sentence.  This is the sixteenth sentence.
This is the seventeenth sentence.  This is the eighteenth sentence.  This is the nineteenth sentence.  This is the twentieth sentence.  This is the twenty-first sentence.  This is the twenty-second sentence.  This is the twenty-third sentence.  This is the twenty-fourth sentence.
This is the twenty-fifth sentence and the first one of this paragraph.  This is the twenty-sixth sentence.  This is the twenty-seventh sentence.  This is the twenty-eighth sentence.  This is the twenty-ninth sentence.  This is the thirtieth sentence.  This is the thirty-first sentence.  This is the thirty-second sentence.
This is the thirty-third sentence and the first one of this, the fifth paragraph.  This is the thirty-fourth sentence.  This is the thirty-fifth sentence.  This is the thirty-sixth sentence.  This is the thirty-seventh sentence.  This is the thirty-eighth sentence.  This is the thirty-ninth sentence.  This is the fortieth sentence.
This is the forty-first sentence.  This is the forty-second sentence.  This is the forty-third sentence and contains the largest prime number yet in this essay.  This is the forty-fourth sentence.  This is the forty-fifth sentence.  This is the forty-sixth sentence.  This is the forty-seventh sentence.  This is the forty-eighth sentence.
This is the forty-ninth sentence.  This is the fiftieth sentence.  This is the fifty-first sentence.  This is the fifty-second sentence.  This is the fifty-third sentence.  This is the fifty-fourth sentence.  This is the fifty-fifth sentence.  This, the eight and final sentence of this paragraph, is the fifty-sixth sentence.
This is the fifty-seventh sentence.  This is the fifty-eighth sentence.  This is the fifty-ninth sentence.  This is the sixtieth sentence.  This is the sixty-first sentence.  This is the sixty-second sentence.  This is the sixty-third sentence.  This is the sixty-fourth sentence.
This is the sixty-fifth sentence.  This is the sixty-sixth sentence and the second of this paragraph.  This is the sixty-seventh sentence.  This is the sixty-ninth sentence.  This is the seventieth sentence.  This is the seventy-first sentence.  This is the seventy-second sentence and the final one of this paragraph.
This is the seventy-third sentence.  This is the seventy-fourth sentence.  This is the seventy-fifth sentence.  This is the seventy sixth sentence.  This is the seventy-eighth sentence.  This is the seventy-ninth sentence, which will be followed by the eightieth sentence.  This is the eightieth sentence.
This is the first sentence of the eleventh paragraph.  This is the second sentence of the eleventh paragraph.  This is the third sentence of the eleventh paragraph.  This is the fourth sentence of the eleventh paragraph.  This is the fifth sentence of the eleventh paragraph.  This is the sixth sentence of the eleventh paragraph.  This is the seventh sentence of the eleventh paragraph.  This is the eighth sentence of the eleventh paragraph and therefore the eighty eighth sentence.
This is the eighty-ninth sentence.  This is the ninetieth sentence.  This is the ninety first sentence.  This is the ninety-second sentence.  This is the ninety-third sentence.  This is the ninety-fourth sentence.  This is the ninety-fifth sentence.  This is the ninety-sixth sentence and if the author were to use the classic two thirds one third ratio point to have the climax, it would be here.
This is the ninety-seventh sentence.  This is the ninety-eighth sentence.  This is the ninety-ninth sentence.  This is the one-hundredth sentence.  This is the first sentence when proper grammar dictates that numerals can be used according to the Chicago Manual of Style and therefore the 101th sentence.  This is the 102th sentence.  This is the 103rd sentence.  This is the 104th sentence.
This is the 105thsentence.  This is the 106thsentence. This is the 107th sentence. This is the 108thsentence. This is the 109th sentence. This is the 110thsentence. This is the 111th sentence. This is the eighth sentence of this paragraph, the 112th sentence, and if you have been paying attention you would know that each paragraph so far has had eight sentences and therefore this paragraph is the 14th paragraph.
This is the 15thparagraph.  This is the 15thparagraph.  This is the 15thparagraph. 
This is the 15thparagraph.  This is the 15thparagraph.  This is the 15thparagraph. 
This is the 15thparagraph.  This is still the 15thparagraph.
This, however, is the 16th paragraph.  This is the second sentence of the 16th paragraph.  This is still the 16thparagraph.  This sentence, too, is part of the 16th paragraph.  As is this one.  And this one, too.  This sentence, also, has the pleasure of being part of the 16th paragraph.  This sentence is also part of the 16th paragraph.  As is this one, the final sentence of the 16thparagraph.
This is the first sentence of this paragraph.  This is the 130th sentence of this essay.  This is the third sentence of the 17th paragraph of this essay. Numerically, this sentence marks the halfway point of this paragraph.  This is the fifth sentence of this paragraph.  This sentence marks three quarters of the way through this paragraph.  This is the seventh sentence of this, the 17th paragraph.  This is the last sentence of this paragraph.
This is the antepreantepenultimate sentence of this paragraph.  This is the preantepenultimate sentence of this paragraph.  This is the antepenultimate sentence of this paragraph.  This is the penultimate sentence of this paragraph. This is the ultimate sentence of this paragraph which is the final paragraph of this essay, the Essay on Nothing.